May 16, 2017
Dawn, over a wintery Iceland The fjords of this beautiful emergent piece of the mid Atlantic ridge are beautifully picked out amidst the surrounding cloud, ice and snow in the light of a lovely dawn, as espied from the Space Station. As well as marking the line where the European and American continents are slowly sundering apart, it may be underlain by a mantle plume of hot semi molten mushy rock ascending from the depths of the planet below, explaining why it is emergent and the rest of the Mid Atlantic ridge is not. As described in the old Viking sagas, the place almost seems to float out of the surrounding sea, even from above. Loz Image credit: NOAA
